Digital Philosophy and Choreographic Thoughts
MIT Press
Digital technologies offer the possibility of capturing, storing, and
manipulating movement, abstracting it from the body and transforming it into
numerical information. In Moving without a Body, Stamatia
Portanova considers what really happens when the physicality of movement is
translated into a numerical code by a technological system. Drawing on the radical
empiricism of Gilles Deleuze and Alfred North Whitehead, she argues that this does
not amount to a technical assessment of software's capacity to record motion but
requires a philosophical rethinking of what movement itself is, or can become.
Discussing the development of different audiovisual tools and the shift from analog
to digital, she focuses on some choreographic realizations of this evolution,
including works by Loie Fuller and Merce Cunningham. Throughout, Portanova considers
these technologies and dances as ways to think -- rather than just perform or
perceive -- movement. She distinguishes the choreographic thought from the
performance: a body performs a movement, and a mind thinks or choreographs a dance.
Similarly, she sees the move from analog to digital as a shift in conception rather
than simply in technical realization. Analyzing choreographic technologies for their
capacity to redesign the way movement is thought, Moving without a
Body offers an ambitiously conceived reflection on the ontological
implications of the encounter between movement and technological systems.
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manipulating movement, abstracting it from the body and transforming it into
numerical information. In Moving without a Body, Stamatia
Portanova considers what really happens when the physicality of movement is
translated into a numerical code by a technological system. Drawing on the radical
empiricism of Gilles Deleuze and Alfred North Whitehead, she argues that this does
not amount to a technical assessment of software's capacity to record motion but
requires a philosophical rethinking of what movement itself is, or can become.
Discussing the development of different audiovisual tools and the shift from analog
to digital, she focuses on some choreographic realizations of this evolution,
including works by Loie Fuller and Merce Cunningham. Throughout, Portanova considers
these technologies and dances as ways to think -- rather than just perform or
perceive -- movement. She distinguishes the choreographic thought from the
performance: a body performs a movement, and a mind thinks or choreographs a dance.
Similarly, she sees the move from analog to digital as a shift in conception rather
than simply in technical realization. Analyzing choreographic technologies for their
capacity to redesign the way movement is thought, Moving without a
Body offers an ambitiously conceived reflection on the ontological
implications of the encounter between movement and technological systems.
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